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In Golden Cities
After a day in the city We settled in a bus shelter In front of a grand theatre The children were fatigued So we sat on the warm paving stones Sharing our city picnic I was reading my Manchester United programmes Whilst Jacob was reading his football comics Lucy being Lucy was playing with Jacks a Plenty …
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Land Girls
My mother was a Land Girl but said little about her experiences Apart from how much she enjoyed the Kent countryside In later years she told me that was not uncommon For the Junkers who frequently made low level attacks On nearby towns and other targets to machine gun Land Girls and other people as…
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The Room
I survived I survived I survived That is the limit of my consciousness I survived all the battles of the war Without even a bloody scratch I wrote many poems now long hidden In those blazing dreams of my experience Each day I try to exorcise these poems By disturbing the dusts of the many tables That litter this…
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The Silence
The trench contains the dead Buried before they died Vacant eyes reveal the distant crosses Their names are immortalised in Hell I was buried too but still breathe The chilled dark but metallic air The blood of many others has stained My heavy coat that hibernates no hope It is snowing now and there are no more…